I apologize to all for being unclear. It's just the newbie coming out.
Let's try again.
I have a 'projects' layout within the 'Views' folder, with a heading,
nav bar, and content area.
When you select "show" on the index.html.erb of the 'projects' View
folder, the project information displays in the content area. I wish to
not change this.
Within another template, I have a link that produces a dialog box
(Prototype Window) that displays the project information. When the
dialog box appears, the project information displays as the first
layout, with header, nav bar and content area.
I created a layout for displaying just the content area and set it in
the controller.
- controller -
def show
@project = Project.find(params[:id])
render :layout => 'dialog'
end
When I go back to the original index.html.erb and click on the 'show'
link, my 'header/nav bar/content area layout disappears. All that
displays is the project information without any styling.
I hope this clears up things.
JohnM
Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/10/14 John Mcleod <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I'm learning Ruby on Rails and still kind of new at this.
>>
>> I have two different layouts (standard page and dialog box) for a view
>> (show).
>
> It is inadvisable to use the word layout here as that word has a
> particular meaning in Rails. I take it that you mean that you have
> two different ways that you want to show the same data.
>
>> else
>> render :layout => 'dialog'
>>
>> end
>>
>> Where would I set the variable? in the show.html.erb?
>
> What is not clear is how you know which view you want to show. Does
> the user do something to indicate which view he wants or is it
> something else? Is it possibly that you want a different view when
> just displaying the data from when the user is entering the data in
> the first place (or editting it)?
>
> Colin
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